This book aims to make practical pathology easier to understand, retain and remember for the medical and dental students. This edition of the manual has been structured according to the latest CBME Guidelines | Competency Based Undergraduate Curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate prescribed by National Medical Commission.
This book, based on 30 years� of teaching and laboratory experience of the author, will also be useful for nursing and laboratory technology students. The content has been prepared and revised after taking advice and suggestions from many experienced teachers of pathology as well as the concerned students. A large number of diagrams, charts and graphs have been included to make the subject easy to follow. This book should serve as a complete guide for the students to surge through their studies and examinations with conviction and dexterity.
Pradeep Kumar NS�MD is Professor, Department of Pathology, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry. He has worked in different medical colleges throughout his career of over 30 years as a dedicated teacher of pathology in different positions.He was examiner and papersetter for undergraduate and postgraduate students of different universities in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, as well as Thailand and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has good experience in clinical laboratory science also. He attended several national and international conferences and workshops; and has to his credit more than 25 research papers published in national and international journals. Currently, he is working at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia (affiliated to Groningen University, the Netherlands), to study the advantages and limitations of another teaching method �problembased learning�. His field of interest is to study difficulties of medical students in teaching and learning
